Market-Driven Fuel Efficiency Sample Contracts
Market-Driven Fuel EfficiencyMarket-Driven Fuel Efficiency • March 17th, 1996
There is widespread agreement among energy analysts that, without significant changes in mar- ket conditions or government policy, improve- ments in the efficiency of the U.S. automobile fleet will slow from the pace of the past decade and a half, with most improvements during the next decade coming from diffusion into the fleet of technologies already introduced into the new car fleet. In fact, as shown in figure 4-1, rapid im- provements in new-car fuel economy that began in the 1970s essentially ended in 1982—the slow- down has already begun.